midとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Inherited from 中期英語 mid, midde, from 古期英語 midd (“mid, middle, midway”), from Proto-West Germanic *midi, from Proto-Germanic *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”).

Cognate with Dutch midden (“in the middle”), German Mitte (“center, middle, mean”), Icelandic miður (“middle”, adjective), Latin medius (“middle”, noun and adjective). See also middle. The slang sense may be influenced by terms such as middling and midwit.

形容詞

mid (no comparative, superlative midmost)

1. Occupying a middle position; middle.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Passing through the silent village, he heard the clock tell the mid hour of night.

   • 2023 November 10, Daniel Brown, “League of Legends Worlds: Can ‘Golden Left Hand’ top ‘Faker’ to earn a grand slam?”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 8 June 2024:

     Though teams from China have hoisted the Summoner’s Cup, which goes to the Worlds champion, it’s always been South Korean mid laners who have starred on those teams. Erzberger said Knight wants to be the first Chinese mid laner to hoist that trophy — and maybe become a national treasure himself.

2. (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
3. (originally African-American Vernacular and Internet slang) Mediocre; of middling quality.
   • 2021 July 26, Reanna Cruz, “Lil Nas X, 'INDUSTRY BABY'”, in NPR‎, archived from the original on 27 May 2022:

     The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst).

   • 2024 April 27, James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 July 2024:

     I’ve watched all of these shows. They’re not bad. They’re simply … mid. Which is what makes them, frustratingly, as emblematic of the current moment in TV as their stars’ previous shows were of the ambitions of the past.

   • 2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 October 2025:

     In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback? [title]

4. (Internet slang, by extension) Trashy; low-quality.

関連する語

名詞

mid (uncountable)

1. (location, online gaming, slang) The middle of the battlefield.

   We need to retake mid.

副詞

mid (not comparable)

1. (location, online gaming, slang) To or into the middle of the battlefield.

   Everyone head mid.

前置詞

mid

1. (archaic) Amid.

   mid the best

   • 1855, Alexander Carlile, Poems, page 70:

     To shelter quivering natures, wrap them round / In downy softness, and impalace them / Mid fair magnificence, where all is found / Abundant as the longing heart can wish.

派生語

See also those listed at Category:English terms prefixed with mid-.

関連する語

• midday
• midnight

語源 2

From 中期英語 mid, midde, from 古期英語 midd (“midst, middle”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *midją, *midjǭ, *midjô (“middle, center”) < *midjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with German Mitte (“center, middle, midst”), Danish midje (“middle”), Icelandic midja (“middle”). See also median, Latin mediānus.

名詞

mid (plural mids)

1. (archaic) Middle.
   • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     About the mid of night come to my tent.

語源 3

Clipping of mid-range.

名詞

mid (plural mids)

1. (disc golf) A mid-range.

語源 4

From or representing German mit, and/or perhaps German Low German mid. Although 中期英語 had a native preposition mid with this same meaning ("with"), it had fallen out of general use by the mid 1400s and survived into the modern English period only in sporadic use and the compounds midwife and theremid.

別の表記

• myd (obsolete)

前置詞

mid

1. (chiefly in representations of Dutch- or German-accented English) With.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:mid.

参照

• “mid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *midi. Compare Old Saxon mid, Old High German mit, Old Norse með.

発音

• IPA: /mid/

前置詞

mid

1. with
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 29:19

     Lēofre mē is þæt iċ hīe selle þē þonne ōðrum menn. Wuna mid mē!

     I'd rather give her to you than to someone else. Stay with me!

2. by
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "THE ANNUNCIATION OF ST. MARY."

     "God underfeng his cnapan Israhel." Mid þam naman syndon getacnode ealle ða þe Gode gehyrsumiað mid soðre eadmodnysse, þa he underfehð to his werode.

     "God hath received his servant Israel." By that name are betokened all those who obey God with true humility, whom he receives into his company.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "On the Holy Day of Pentecost"

     Þa geleaffullan brohton heora feoh, and ledon hit æt ðæra apostola foton. Mid þam is geswutelod þæt cristene men ne sceolon heora hiht besettan on woroldlice gestreon, ac on Gode anum. Se gítsere ðe beset his hiht on his goldhord, he bið swa swa se apostol cwæð, "þam gelíc þe deofolgyld begæð."

     The faithful brought their money, and laid it at the feet of the apostles. By this is manifested that christian men should not set their delight in worldly treasure, but in God alone. The covetous who sets his delight in his gold-hoard, is, as the apostle said, "like unto him who practiseth idolatry."

   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Asia is befangen mid...þǣm gārseċġe sūþan ⁊ norþan ⁊ eastan...

     Asia is surrounded by...the southern and northern and eastern sea...

3. as
   • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Assumption of St. John the Apostle"

     Mid þam ðe se apostol Iohannes stop into ðære byrig Ephesum, þa bær man him togeanes anre wydewan líc to byrigenne; hire nama wæs Drusiana.

     As the apostle John was entering the city of Ephesus, there was borne towards him the corpse of a widow to be buried; her name was Drusiana.

4. on
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Prayer of Moses (Mid-Lent)"

     ...ofer ða readan sæ siðodon mid fotum...

     ...they had journeyed on foot over the Red Sea,...

派生した語

• Middle English: mid

別の表記

• med, medde, midde, mide, mit

発音

• IPA: /mid/

前置詞

mid

1. with
2. amid, amidst

参照

• “mid (adj. & pref.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 midd.

別の表記

• med, medde, midde, mide, mit

発音

• IPA: /mid/

形容詞

mid

1. mid-, middle, central, intermediate
2. that is or are in the middle or intermediate in time

派生した語

• English: mid

参照

• “mid (adj. & pref.)” in the Middle English Dictionary (1954–2001)

接頭辞

mid-

1. Denoting the middle part.

   He's in his mid-thirties — meaning he is roughly around the age of 33-37, as opposed to one's early thirties (aged roughly 30–33) and one's late thirties (aged roughly around 37-39).

   He was born in the mid-1930s.

   a mid-sixteenth-century cathedral.

   • 2013 May 13, Judith Shulevitz, “The Lethality of Loneliness”, in The New Republic‎, archived from the original on 31 March 2015:

     Back in the mid-’90s, when Cacioppo was at Ohio State University (he is now at the University of Chicago), he and his colleagues sorted undergraduates into three groups—the non-lonely, the sort-of-sometimes lonely, and the lonely.

   • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:

     Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.

2. Occupying a middle position.

   a mid-shoulder stretch

3. Intermediate

   mid-key, midclass, midgut, midbrow

4. Amid.
5. During, in the middle of doing something.

   He was hit by a ball mid-jump.

同意語

• (central): centro-/centri-, midpoint, especially of mass nouns
• (middle part): medio-, especially between countable nouns
• (intermediate): meso-, medio-, especially when comparing sizes
• (amid): inter-, dia-, especially of space
• (during): intra-, peri-, especially of time

派生語

• mid-air
• mid-season
• mid-winter

アナグラム

• DMI, Dim, IDM, IM'd, IMD, MDI, dim, dim.

発音

• IPA: /ˈmid/ (as a nominal prefix)
• IPA: /mid/ (as a verbal prefix)

接頭辞

mid-

1. with, in conjunction with; together (with)

   midwist ― presence, company; society; cooperation

   midrād ― an accompaniment, a riding with

2. the middle part

   midstrēam ― midstream

3. between

   midspreca ― an advocate, intermediary

派生語